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Military releases Koran-abuse findings
WASHINGTON TIMES.COM ^ | JUNE 4, 2005 | Guy Taylor

Posted on 06/03/2005 10:40:01 PM PDT by CHARLITE

An interrogator accidentally stepped on a prisoner's Koran, copies of Islam's holy text got wet when guards tossed water balloons into a cellblock and one was "splashed" by urine, according to the final results of a Pentagon probe. But the investigation sparked by accusations in the press about desecration of the Koran here found "no credible evidence" that prison guards or interrogators "ever flushed a Koran down a toilet," the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the prison for terrorism suspects, said yesterday.

The findings show that al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at the detention center themselves mishandled Korans on 15 occasions, three times more than the military prison's guards and interrogators. "These included using a Koran as a pillow, ripping pages out of the Koran, attempting to flush a Koran down the toilet, and urinating on the Koran." The probe found five confirmed incidents of military guards and interrogators "mishandling" the Koran, a fact cited by military officials before but never described in detail. The incidents were:......

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abuse; charges; desecrating; detainees; guantanamo; honorkilling; koran; koranbeaters; korandesecration; noevidence
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To: Mightylucky

Who cares? The liberal media does. All night its been about this weak story. Mind you these same people defended a cross in a jar of urine and elephant dung on the Virgin Mary as free speech. Its America hatred through and through.


61 posted on 06/04/2005 12:57:40 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: CHARLITE

Riots in 3....2.....1...


62 posted on 06/04/2005 1:02:08 AM PDT by Ronin (When the fox gnaws....SMILE!)
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To: CHARLITE
Kickin asses and takin names

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63 posted on 06/04/2005 1:13:42 AM PDT by Critical Bill
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To: Critical Bill

Mail call.

64 posted on 06/04/2005 3:40:05 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: CHARLITE
The bottom line is that the Koran is a book of lies, and is inspired by evil itself.

Giving these maniacs the Koran in prison is akin to giving homosexual pedophiles a magazine subscription to "Blue Boy."

65 posted on 06/04/2005 3:44:16 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot
I like your thinking!
And where did these "detainees" terrorists actually get a Koran? Would the Islamic totalitarianist supply Americans with a New Testament?

We're so freaking DUMB!!!

The need from the Pentagon, or some dimwith therein, to let everyone in the world know that a soldier one day kicked a Koran is beyond me.

JUST SHUT UP!!!

ya know what I mean?

66 posted on 06/04/2005 8:11:07 AM PDT by ThirstyMan
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To: ThirstyMan; SkyPilot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416426/posts

The Pentagon has distributed some 1,600 taxpayer-funded copies of the Muslim Holy Book to suspected terrorists detained at...

Well, here’s the answer!

67 posted on 06/04/2005 8:33:36 AM PDT by ThirstyMan
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To: CHARLITE

This is nuts it's the big thing on the news--big freakin deal--look at what they do and kill in the name of the kora--ahh never mind it's sick--koran belongs in the toilet,and it's a book,only a book


68 posted on 06/04/2005 8:39:16 AM PDT by rang1995 (They will love us when we win)
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To: ThirstyMan
ya know what I mean?

Oh man, do I ever.  It's insane.  To think that the military is even wasting time giving credence to this is enough to make your head spin.

69 posted on 06/04/2005 9:06:38 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: rang1995
This is nuts it's the big thing on the news--big freakin deal--look at what they do and kill in the name of the kora--ahh never mind it's sick--koran belongs in the toilet,and it's a book,only a book

This is even lower on the news totem pole than that Abu Graihb thing and that was not worth reporting.   Now they also have that Gitmo junk ... this is a WAR ... when is the military going to stop worrying about and answering to crap like this and start worrying about the things that are important, like the safety of our country.

71 posted on 06/04/2005 9:10:48 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: rang1995
See, now this guy gets it!  This should be the story on every newspaper and website ... we need to wake up and stop playing into our enemies hands.  By enemy I mean the left and the American Media.
72 posted on 06/04/2005 9:13:29 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: CHARLITE

this nonsense is the lead story on abc radio hourly network news--expect sunday times and wash post to get on this...crazy..whats the meaning of WAR? and wake up but this is a war about the KORAN and ISLAM


73 posted on 06/04/2005 11:02:27 AM PDT by rang1995 (They will love us when we win)
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To: hipaatwo
Religion of Peace? The Koran is nothing more than a Death Cult Training manual. Flush away!

And check out this dude- the new record holder of the smallest Koran. This one can be flushed down the sink.

http://pakistantimes.net/2004/11/06/specialreport.htm

74 posted on 06/04/2005 11:16:12 AM PDT by petercooper (Put Mark Levin on the Supreme Court.)
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To: petercooper

http://pakistantimes.net/2004/11/06/specialreport.htm


75 posted on 06/04/2005 11:17:22 AM PDT by petercooper (Put Mark Levin on the Supreme Court.)
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To: CHARLITE

What I want to know is how many of these terrorists our guys abused; kicked, beat, shot, beheaded, etc.
People just can't be serious if they worry about one of their Satanicly inspired Korans getting wet. This is just nuts.


76 posted on 06/04/2005 11:23:48 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland
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To: blackbart.223

I have a simple solution to all of this: confiscate all Korans.


77 posted on 06/04/2005 12:48:00 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (FACT: You can get more reliable information in a beauty shop, than from the media)
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To: softwarecreator

Ah, the 'they're in prison so they must be guilty' argument. I've no doubt that there are some reasonably unsavourary people at Guantanamo although, as I said previously, it is fairly obvious that no-one of any real terrorist standing has ever been anywhere near the place.

But the fact is we don't know what most of the people there were doing to get there. There's never been a situation where evidence can be presented. Some of them would have been engaged in fighting in Afghanistan (although that's pretty much all there's been to do in Afghanistan for the past few decades so that's hardly a suprise), some of them I'm sure where in the wrong place at the wrong time or offended the wrong people (most don't seem to have been directly captured by American forces at all). Some were nowhere near Afghanistan when detained.


78 posted on 06/04/2005 1:31:42 PM PDT by Canard
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To: SkyPilot

IIf you click on my thumbnail you will see why I made it that size to avoid the bandwidth that yours has used.


79 posted on 06/05/2005 4:24:43 AM PDT by Critical Bill
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To: Paul Atreides
"I have a simple solution to all of this: confiscate all Korans."

I assume you mean all "The Korans" from prisoners of war. I'd agree on that. But my book burning statement earlier was made in anger. I don't believe in that.

Let me take this a step further. I'm fifty two and when I was twenty one I made a freind who was a Muslim from Turkey. He wasn't a kill crazy asshole like we see today. He was a doctor who married a Christian woman. Not all are bad but most of them are.

80 posted on 06/05/2005 9:26:54 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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